Honduran fingerprints could help ID body
By Paul Alongi • STAFF WRITER • June 24, 2008


Investigators are hoping that fingerprints on their way to Greenville from Honduras will help identify the body of a man who might have been fatally shot by a vacationing FBI agent during an April 27 armed robbery, authorities said today.


The badly decomposed body was found off a side road near Laurens on May 6 and had an "MS 13" gang tattoo on a wrist, Greenville County Coroner Parks Evans said.

The man's name hasn't released because the tattoo alone isn't enough to legally identify the body, but investigators believe it could belong to a Honduran man who has lived in Laurens and North Carolina, Evans said. The man appears to have been in the country legally, he said.

Greenville police have said that two masked gunmen robbed FBI agent Ira Liwag, 41, and two other people at gunpoint as they stood under an awning at the Gunter Theatre about 9:30 p.m. on April 27. She fired one shot as the assailants fled in a silver SUV, said Cpl. Jason Rampey.

Greenville police made one arrest last month, charging Elmer David Cespedes-Orozco, 23, with three counts of armed robbery, according to warrants.
Investigators believe Cespedes-Orozco's unnamed co-defendant was shot, according to a warrant.

One of the assailants wore a "camo jacket," according to an incident report. The body was found with a camouflage jacket, said Laurens County Coroner Nick Nichols.

Evans said he isn't sure when the fingerprints will arrive from Honduras.






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